Response to Appropriation of Visual Art

Altered images through Photoshop technique are everywhere today. There are a group of people who are interested in Photoshop and create various new images to please the public audience (mostly Web-audience). In this class, it’s good to know the academic term “Appropriation.” It’s a magical art to appropriate the original image and combine with an icon or icons. Sometimes the iconic elements totally subvert the meaning of the original image, which is just for fun. You could also say it is a magic of icon. What’s more, the process of appropriating an image is also interesting. It even provides you with a sense of accomplishment, because you know you are creating something.